European tech weekly recap: Over €475M invested across 35+ deals

Last week, we tracked more than 35 tech funding deals worth over €475 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumours, and related news stories across Europe.

📊 The top three industries that raised the most were space (€160.9 million), artificial intelligence (€81.2 million), and software (€69.9 million). At the country level, 🇪🇸 Spain took first place (€159 million), followed by 🇬🇧 the UK (€108.6 million) and 🇹🇷 Türkiye (€67 million).

❗ Be sure to check out the Tech.eu Funding Explorer, free and open to everyone, for deeper insights into funding data, investor activity, company profiles, and market trends. Now, let's get you up to speed on everything that happened last week.

Have a great week!

Funding deals by amount

• SPAIN: PLD Space continues stellar year of growth with €158.9M ESA award
• UK: Stability AI raises $76M, with Warner and Sony investing
• TÜRKİYE: HubX received approximately $75M in investment at a valuation of $1.2B
• SWITZERLAND: Adaptyv raises $40M to build automated lab for agentic biology
• UK: Livestock tech platform Breedr raises €23M to expand globally
• NETHERLANDS: VitalFluid raises €17.2M to protect crops with its "lightning in a box" technology
• FRANCE: Dental robotics startup Lupin Dental closes €15M Series A round
• SWEDEN: eComID raises €14.6M to build the “shopping passport” for AI-powered personalised commerce
• BELGIUM: MAASH secures €12.15M to take mycoprotein production to industrial scale
• UK: Certain Energy raises £10M Series A for long-duration battery storage
• DENMARK: Lunar co-founders launch AI audit startup Repodo, raising over €8M
• NETHERLANDS: AI-native financial services startup Neno secures €6.6M for European expansion
• HUNGARY: Edtech BOOKR raises €6.1M Series A to expand global reach
• IRELAND: Entity raises $5.8M in seed funding
• UK: Boldr raises $5M to turn home energy systems into grid capacity
• FRANCE: ColibriTD secures €4M to scale its quantum simulation platform
• NORWAY: Volve lands $3M to expand construction tendering AI across Europe
• TÜRKİYE: AI-focused game studio Surge Games has secured a $3M investment
• UK: Embedd raises €2.3M to build the software infrastructure for physical AI
• GERMANY: Kazimi raises €2.2M pre-seed to tackle bot activity in mobile marketing
• UK: Itoflow lands $2.5M to scale investment research and portfolio management
• SWEDEN: Death-care platform Solace Care raises €2.1M for European expansion
• FRANCE: Spacetech startup ArcSpace secures over €2M for in-orbit satellite servicing and repair
• SWEDEN: AI Robotics startup Cota Robotics secures over €1.8M to expand retail robot deployment
• BELGIUM: Motion lands $2M to expand humanoid robot deployments across Europe
• NETHERLANDS: AI-powered hearing care platform Clementine secures €1.7M seed funding
• SWEDEN: AI startup Cofactor raises €1M in seed funding
• DENMARK: os.energy raises €1M to develop AI-powered tools for household energy use
• SWEDEN: Tackling STI testing, Readily Diagnostics raises €811,000 for affordable alternative
• GERMANY: ToysReloved secures €425,000 investment
• SWEDEN: Aquacheq secures €135,000 to advance smart water technology
• SPAIN: The Regional Development Agency is once again investing €100,000 in Vumi to accelerate its commercial expansion
• GERMANY: nnexoro secures an undisclosed sum investment
• GERMANY: NRW.BANK and several family offices are investing an undisclosed sum in ag-tech.systems
• AUSTRIA: Several business angels are investing a six-figure sum in Everleaf
• GERMANY: The real estate group Vonovia is investing an undisclosed sum in Immoly

Exits and M&A activity

• FRANCE: Nvidia agrees to buy Hugging Face for $12.9B, says report
• GERMANY: Berlin-based tax startup b'steuern and Glindway are merging
• GERMANY: NEURA Robotics acquires ADLATUS to bring Physical AI to autonomous cleaning
• POLAND: Hostersi acquires Polish AI leader TIDK to form unified cloud and AI technology group
• AUSTRIA: Wels-based health IT group x-tention acquires majority stake in Innsbruck-based health tech company syndena
• GERMANY: Lookthrough acquires BuildingMinds from Schindler
• GERMANY: Finnish Boksi acquires Goodlife
• SPAIN: Air Marketing acquires Barcelona-based Cleverep to strengthen its activity in Europe
• SWITZERLAND: Swiss industrial company Bystronic acquires Isochronic